Open Science for Synthesis 2017

Gulf Research Program

NCEAS

Matthew B. Jones, Amber Budden, Christopher Lortie

July 10-28, 2017

Sponsor: Gulf Research Program, National Academy of Sciences

NCEAS Synthesis

Ecology of Infectious Disease

Climate Effects

Threats and Population Declines

Understanding Ocean Health

Ocean Health Index

Science

An index to assess the health and benefits of the global ocean Halpern et al. Nature, (30 August 2012) DOI: 10.1038/nature11397

Data

Software

Synthesis in the Gulf Research Program

  • Environment
  • Energy
  • Health

  • Natural systems
  • Human societies
  • Engineered systems

Introductions

  • 30 seconds: Name, brief bio, project interests
  • Software you love, or love to hate

Course Topics

  • Collaboration modes and technologies, virtual collaboration
  • Data management, preservation, and sharing
  • Data manipulation, integration, and exploration
  • Scientific workflows and reproducible research
  • Programming using agile and sustainable software practices
  • Data analysis and modeling
  • Communicating results to broad communities

Instructors

  • NCEAS: Matt Jones, Amber Budden, Chris Lortie, Julien Brun, Bryce Mecum
  • Univ. Colorado: Leah Wasser
  • Data Carpentry: Tracy Teal

Curriculum

Week 1: Fundamental data and collaboration skills

Introduction to command line, communicating science, R, meta-analysis and data management.

Week 2: Towards efficient and reproducible research

Tabular data, reproducible research and coding, and metagenomics.

Week 3: Advanced topics & group projects

Communication, geospatial analysis, data viz, and synthesis project results.

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Parking Lot

Parking Lot

  • Running issues that we need to resolve
    • Especially if off-topic, or lengthy discussion
  • Add anything you’d like addressed
  • Create one issue per discussion item
  • We'll review each morning

Code of Conduct

  • Place holder for Amber

Daily Schedule

Course materials and resources

Course materials will be downloadable

Acknowledgements

OSS2017 was funded under a grant from the Gulf Research Program, National Academy of Sciences

CC-BY This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.